Old Time Trio. Or is it Bluegrass? No -- didn't make a mandolin. Pardon the poor photo -- digital photography has improved a touch since I made these musicians.

These photos show a few of the willow people I've made in the last decade or two.​Some have gone to to fund-raising auctions.

Others I've given away.

And a few have ended up outside my houseserenading passers-by until the time cameto retire to the woods to hang out with birds and coyotes and other shrubby things like themselves.

This year, the brown willow outside my house was really tallso I decided to make something I could go inside.

Is this actually going to turn into something?

Yanking grape vines out of our lilac bushes nearly tore my arms out of their sockets--each was so long I could spiral it around the entire structure​ and pin it into place with lengths of red osier dogwood.

I don't quite know what to say about this little time machine--or staycation hut, or bird watching blind, or whatever it is--except that I wish all of you could hang out in it for a little while too. ​

Next week it'll go off to a fund raising auction at the Pritchard Gallery in Moscowleaving a big hole (or free space) in my studio.

as a kid I had an imaginary friend.....your willow people take that concept to a whole new level!!

Love them!!

Sarah

1/13/2016 03:15:43 pm

Thank you Valerie. And yes, I think they are like imaginary friends in physical form. Whenever I start one there is this huge question mark -- what/ who is this? And then the form starts to emerge as though the willow know all along what/ who it was going to be. Wild. But then there is a lot of energy in those wippy withies.

I love this-- thank you so much for publishing the pictures with your lovely commentary.

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